The far rights are eating into the Red Green gains on the opinion poll

Thursday, 19 December 2013
The Swedish far right party, Sweden Democrats has reached a new record
level of 10.4 percent, up 1 percentage point, in the new opinion poll
in Sweden conducted by polling organisation, Novus voter
for TV4.

The Centre party fell 0.4 percentage points and is currently outside
parliament accession threshold and stands at 3.9 percent. Although the
people’s party and the Christian Democrats also slopes while
support for the Conservative Moderates increasing by 0.8 percentage
points to 25.0 percent.

In the Red-Green bloc, the Left Party was a loser with a fall of 0.8 percentage points to 6.4 percent.

Overall, the Red-Green parties reduce their take somewhat since the
November polling and together stand at 49.9 percent, compared with 38.5
percent of the Alliance. But at the same time the difference between
blocs remain the largest since the 2010 election.

Opinion poll according Novus

All changes are within the margin of error.

Party

Voter Support

Change *

Social Democrats

34.2

+0.3

The Left Party

6.4

-0.8

The Green Party

9.3

+0.2

Centre party

3.9

-0.4

People’s party

5.5

-0.7

Moderates

25

+0.8

Christian Democrats

4.1

-0.3

Sweden Democrats

10.4

+1.0

Bloc politics

Governing The Alliance

38.5

-0.6

Opposition Red-green

49.9

-0.3

* Change in percentage points since the previous survey. Novus survey
was conducted via telephone interviews November 25 to December 15, when
2501 people were asked how they would vote if the election were today.